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YORK J H
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 73 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 63 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 28 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 63% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About YORK J H
YORK J H operates as a sizable middle-grades school in SPRING, Texas, operated by CONROE ISD. Current enrollment sits at 2,009 students spanning grades 7 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 212% bigger than the state mean of about 643.
CONROE ISD runs 66 schools in total, collectively educating 72,914 students. YORK J H is one of those campuses.
On demographics, YORK J H logs that the largest single group is White at 51%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 25% Hispanic, 13% Black, 6% Asian, 4% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 67%.
Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 115 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.5:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 24% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Montgomery County's rate of about 48%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), YORK J H performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.4%, the actual is 63.5%, a residual of +0.1 points.
Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Montgomery County put median household earnings sit near $97,701, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Montgomery County's 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 134,595 students), YORK J H is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: COX INT, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around YORK J H. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), YORK J H ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 67.8%.
Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.
Trend over the last 7 years. YORK J H's enrollment has increased 46% since 2018, when it stood at 1,379 (now 2,009). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 17.5:1 today.
On allk12, the feed for YORK J H typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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